Thinking voters are stupid...?

This is a very dangerous thing for any candidate to get into. Recently a cable news network showed some clips of Mr. Obama on the campaign stump talking to voters and hammering some (truthful) facts about Gov. Palin's earmark/pork barrel spending history. He mentions, about the bride to no where, "first she was for it, then against it -pause- remember that?" Certainly he was referring to the attacks against Sen. John Kerry in 2004.

Bringing this up at all in turn leads to his shift on oil drilling. His shift on public financing. His shift/pragmatism on Iraq. His tax plan has never changed but his most recent rhetoric is now, and this is paraphrasing: "first priority is getting the tax cuts done....then see where we're at, if we're in a recession....could hold back/wait to raise taxes on those I've said I'll raise taxes on". Obama has certainly shifted and/or changed rhetoric over the election.

The simple truth is every one called him out for shifting to the center as soon as he won the primary after running to his base. He actually shifted on maybe half of his issues but that's beside the point. The point is not long ago he was said to of shifted (as every single Democrat has done) toward the center. In fact, from a policy standpoint, Mr. McCain has shifted his stances more than Mr. Obama but the media covered that fact less. Most likely because Sen. McCain was shifting to help get him votes from his base while Sen. Obama was shifting in a way that could have cost him votes with his base. The bigger reason was probably that Mr. Obama is still, by comparison, the new kid on the block without a track record to judge where he'll stay or eventually land as to which side of an issue.